Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Yay!!!! for you lady!
And I am supposed to go for a PT assessment on my hip in the morning at 7:00. We will see if I feel like getting out. They should understand that a 68 year old woman has to give consideration about getting out in it at all, don't they?
I hope that your pain subsides after your PT. How long will you have to go for it to be effective?
Yay! Enjoy your retirement.
Hope your daughter finds a solution to help.
glad - its good you have a diagnosis and treatment. Sure hope it gets better fast. I guess you have to slow down on the walking. Did they identify a cause?
Thanks.
So, a couple of months. PT definitely helps with pain. My husband and I both had major surgeries and PT not eased the pain but improved mobility and strength. Good luck!
This is what I found online for causes:
Bowed legs.
Having one leg that’s longer than the other.
Knee arthritis.
Rotating your ankle, leg or foot inward when you move.
Weakness in your hip muscles, butt muscles or abdominal muscles.
I do have one leg a bit longer than the other which causes me to swing my right foot out when I walk. The therapist also told me my glutes are very weak and I know I have weak abs.
It’s tricky isn’t it. We exercise to stay fit and healthy but at times it can cause us problems too.
My daughter who was on dance team at school wrecked her knees. She’s had surgery and has arthritis.
Both of my daughters played volleyball, did gymnastics and dance. Of course, injuries are bound to happen when we overdo. Plus freaky accidents happen.
My physical therapist strongly stressed building up our core muscles. So did my mom’s home health physical therapist.
Your physical therapist will guide you in the right direction.
My husband had surgery on both of his shoulders. I teased him about his damage being from holding our kids on his shoulders for all of our Mardi Gras parades.
My husband was a track runner in school. He walks now but doesn’t run anymore. He never takes the elevator at his office. He climbs the stairs.
I was the avid cyclist. After my bicycle accident at age 44 my orthopedic surgeon told me to switch to my stationary bike.
I had a bad fall from a tree branch in the street and now have steel rods on both bones and the surgery was difficult to do. If I injure my arm again the surgeon won’t be able to fix it.
I rode miles and miles and miles on my bike since I was a young teenager. I loved it.
American Heelers
24000 Mercantile Rd. Ste. 14
Beachwood, OH 44122
www.orthopedicshoelift.com
216-378-2686
There have been many others recently with that constant pressure he had - with a LO just at them day after day after day. No let up. Just & won't pay for other people or services or change their ways. Just constant badgering family to do for them. Exhausting & relationship wrecking.
"I forget".
When there is someone to ask in the home: "How do you spell...?", or "What is that called?"....or "What was that word again?"....or "What day is it?"....or
"What time is it?"....
it becomes a bad habit asking others to do our thinking for us. It can lead to laziness in our own thinking, and more forgetting.
Use it or lose it.
Disease as we age can take away enough of our memory all too soon.
Making an effort to exercise our memory and our mind can help us to remain
independent in our thinking and less an irritation to those we live with.
So, open a new tab, look up what you need to complete that word or sentence, and be independent.
Who needs this advice more than me?
I made my doctor laugh when last I went in and she said "So how are you doing" and I said "I am practicing spelling five letter words backwards". Ha. And sometimes I DO in bed at night. Because I was NEVER good at this stuff. My memory has always been a bit faulty for things, as well. I don't hold onto the past well, which is the opposite of what most people have. They remember the past but not what they watched on TV last night. Alas, I think it great to expand the mind by doing things we don't ordinarily do, like puzzles if you play solitaire and solitaire if you do puzzles. But we can't change a whole lot. I guess we can be nicer to be around, but think we can't change a lot. Didn't the Nun Studies show that? I can't recall the outcome of that one (whoops!).
Bandy,
As you know, you must take those tests verbally, can't be writing it down, haha.
Have you seen the movie, ‘Her’ starring Joaquin Phoenix? It’s a Sci-fi futuristic drama. I love it!
Joaquin’s character is recently divorced and finds companionship from an artificially intelligent virtual assistant.
Or…
How about trying a ‘long distance kissing device’ to send your sweetheart a simulated kiss through the phone? This sells for around $38 and invented by Chinese tech students.
What about the 31 year old Chinese man several years back that created and built his robot wife after not being able to find a human wife.
Creative, huh? He had a wedding ceremony with her and invited family and friends. He will continue to upgrade her software to suit his needs.
I am married to an engineer. I hope that he never decides to build a new wife! LOL 😆